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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 29</span><span class="fp-text">LE ROI DÉMÉTRIUS ET LE POÈTE MÉNANDRE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XXIX</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">DEMETRIUS REX ET MENANDER POETA</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Démétrius de Phalère</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">avait usurpé dans Athènes le souverain pouvoir,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et le peuple, selon sa coutume, se précipitait à l'envi sur ses pas</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">en applaudissant son nouveau tyran. Les premiers de la ville,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">en gémissant tout bas d'un si triste coup de la fortune,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">vinrent déposer un baiser servile sur la main qui les opprimait.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On vit même les plus sages et les plus retirés,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">dans la crainte de l'avenir, ramper à ses pieds.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">De ce nombre fut Ménandre, célèbre comique.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Démétrius avait lu ses ouvrages, sans connaître l'auteur</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">dont il admirait le génie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Parfumé d'essence et laissant traîner sa tunique,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">notre poète s'avançait d'un pas lent et rempli de mollesse.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Dès que Démétrius l'aperçut parmi les derniers de la foule&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Quel est cet efféminé, demanda-t-il,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui ose paraître ainsi devant moi&nbsp;?</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">—&nbsp;C'est le poète Ménandre, répondit son entourage.&nbsp;» Changeant aussitôt...</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Demetrius, qui dictus Phalereus,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Athenas occupavit imperio improbo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ut mos est vulgi, passim et certatim ruit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Feliciter&nbsp;!&nbsp;» subclamant. Ipsi principes</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">illam osculantur qua sunt oppressi manum,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">tacite gementes tristem fortunae vicem.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quin etiam resides et sequentes otium,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ni defuisse noceat, <span class="fp-correction" title="repetunt  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">repunt</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="repunt  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">repetunt</span></span> ultimi ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">in quis Menander, nobilis comoediis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quas ipsum ignorans legerat Demetrius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et admiratus fuerat ingenium viri,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">unguento <span class="fp-correction" title="dilibutus  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">delibutus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="delibutus  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">dilibutus</span></span>, <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n134/mode/1up">p.71</a>]</span> vestitu afluens,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">veniebat <span class="fp-correction" title="gresso  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">gressu</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="gressu  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">gresso</span></span> delicato et languido.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hunc ubi tyrannus vidit extremo agmine&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Quisnam <span class="fp-correction" title="cinedus  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">cinaedus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="cinaedus  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">cinedus</span></span> ille in conspectu meo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">audet venire&nbsp;?&nbsp;» Responderunt proximi&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Hic est Menander scriptor.&nbsp;» Mutatus statim...</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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